T0457 - DesignProVideo - Acrobat 9 101 Core Acrobat 9

Adobe Acrobat is essential to trading documents on the modern Internet. This tutorial-video will teach you how to create forms, format text, imbed images, and distribute PDFs like a pro!

Adobe Acrobat has become the industry standard format for distributing electronic documents over the Internet, but that doesn't mean it's easy to use! However, with a few tips & tricks up your sleeve, you can make complex, interactive documents as easily as writing on paper with a pen.

In this 4-hour tutorial-video program you'll learn essential survival skills for using Adobe Acrobat 9, including formating text, adding images, and creating graphs & tables. You'll also learn how to make forms and secure documents so they can't be changed after they leave the safety of your computer.

This is a comprehensive tutorial, but you don't need to watch it all. Use the search functions and detailed menus to quickly find important topics - that's the essence of Nonlinear Educating using N.E.D.

T0280 - CG Academy Particle Flow Fundamentals 5 : Practical Examples

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Running Time: 4hours3minutes

PRICE: £27.00
Practical Examples concludes our Particle Flow Fundamentals series with an in depth look at nine diverse real world effects. We look at how to approach each example in the most efficient manner, how different flow topologies can be used to tackle different effect problems. How materials can be used to produce animated effects, and how animated meshes can be instanced into our flows to help in realising our compelling series of effects.

This DVD is aimed at a user with a basic knowledge of Particle Flow. It has been primarily designed as a continuation of our Particle Flow Fundamentals series, though it is also very much suitable for those of an intermediate level of Particle Flow use.

T0213 - Total Training Adobe CS4 Design Workflow

Chapter 1: BRIDGE: THE HUB OF CREATIVE SUITE 4 (23 min)
1. A Quick Tour of the Bridge Interface
2. Browsing Images & Previewing Thumbnails
3. Metadata, Keywords, Filtering & Collections
4. Moving, Copying & Deleting Images
5. Establishing the Creative Suite Color Settings
6. Using Additional Bridge Tools & Adobe Services

Chapter 2: RASTER IMAGE EDITING WITH PHOTOSHOP® (63 min)
1. Introducing Photoshop CS4
2. Basic Color Correction
3. Selection Techniques
4. Quick Mask Mode & the Masks Panel
5. Working with Layers & Compositing
6. Using Illustrator® Objects in Photoshop
7. Adding Layer Styles & Creating Layer Comps
8. Saving & Outputting from Photoshop

Chapter 3: VECTOR IMAGE EDITING WITH ILLUSTRATOR® (60 min)
1. Introducing Illustrator CS4
2. Setting Up Multiple Artboards
3. Working with Shapes, Fills & Strokes
4. Tracing a Pencil Drawing with the Pen Tool
5. Working with Live Trace
6. Adjusting Colors & Gradients
7. Working with Effects
8. Outputting from Illustrator

Chapter 4: LAYING IT ALL OUT WITH INDESIGN® (62 min)
1. InDesign CS4 Interface & Navigation
2. Drawing Shapes & Working with Color
3. Managing Master Pages & Variables
4. Inserting & Scaling Graphics
5. Object Layer Options, Links & Edit Original
6. Importing Text & Threading Text Frames
7. Creating Paragraph Styles
8. Adding Interactive Elements
9. Outputting Your Work

Chapter 5: ADDING MULTIMEDIA WITH ACROBAT® (30 min)
1. Introducing Acrobat 9 Professional
2. Adding Interactivity to PDF Layers
3. Inserting Sound & Video into a PDF
4. Merging Files & Creating a Full Screen Slideshow
5. Assembling a PDF Portfolio

Chapter 6: GETTING ANIMATED WITH FLASH® (43 min)
1. Introducing Flash CS4
2. Importing Illustrator Files
3. Importing Photoshop Files & Layer Selections
4. Creating & Animating Flash Symbols
5. Applying an Action to a Button
6. Motion Tweens, the Motion Editor & Motion Presets
7. Creating a Banner Layout & Publishing to .SWF

Chapter 7: EDITING WEB GRAPHICS WITH FIREWORKS® (16min)
1. Opening Photoshop Files in Fireworks CS4
2. Resizing Images
3. Optimizing Images
4. Setting Hotspots

Chapter 8: DESIGNING A WEB LAYOUT WITH DREAMWEAVER® (56 min)
1. Getting to Know Dreamweaver CS4
2. Slicing an Image in Photoshop
3. Creating a CSS Layout from Scratch
4. Centering a CSS Layout
5. Hyperlinks & CSS
6. Using a Class Style to Control Layout
7. Inserting Flash Video
8. Integrating Photoshop Smart Objects
9. Finishing Touches
10. Credits

T0212 - Total Training Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Essentials

Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE INTERFACE (19 min)
1. Acrobat Preferences
2. Toolbars & the Navigation Panel
3. Common Toolbar Options
4. Page View Modes & the Help System

Chapter 2: NAVIGATING PDFS (21 min)
1. Using the Menu Bar & the Pages Panel to Navigate
2. Selecting & Copying Content, Rulers & Guides
3. Entering Form Data
4. Creating & Managing Bookmarks
5. Hyperlinks & Searching
6. Saving & Exporting PDFs in Different Formats

Chapter 3: CREATING PDFS (40 min)
1. Direct Export & Distill a PDF
2. Editing Standard PDF Settings
3. Image Settings
4. Font Settings
5. Color & Advanced Settings
6. Printing to PDF
7. Combining Files into a Single PDF
8. Creating PDF Portfolios
9. Building a PDF from a Web Page

Chapter 4: WINDOWS®-ONLY PDF CREATION FEATURES (13 min)
1. Using Acrobat PDFMaker in Microsoft® Word
2. Using Acrobat PDFMaker in Microsoft PowerPoint®
3. Using Acrobat PDFMaker in Microsoft Publisher
4. Using Acrobat PDFMaker in Microsoft Excel®
5. Creating a PDF from Windows Explorer

Chapter 5: MANIPULATING PDFS (31 min)
1. Inserting, Deleting & Replacing Pages
2. Adding Headers & Footers
3. Adding Watermarks & Background Images
4. Comparing Two PDFs
5. Adding Multimedia
6. Adding Hyperlinks

Chapter 6: CREATING PDF FORMS (21 min)
1. Creating a New Form
2. Adding a Reset Button
3. Distributing a Form to Collect Data
4. Collect Data & Export the Results
5. Building a Form from a Scanned Document

Chapter 7: OPTIMIZING PDFS (8 min)
1. Reducing File Size
2. PDF Optimizer

Chapter 8: EXPLORING OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION (10 min)
1. Create a New PDF from a Scan & Configure Conversion Settings
2. Convert a Scan to a Searchable PDF & Run OCR

Chapter 9: PDF SECURITY (4 min)
1. Establishing Identity
2. Creating Security Policies
3. Securing the PDF
4. Removing Security from a PDF

Chapter 10: PDF REVIEW & COMMENTING (33 min)
1. Using the Commenting Tools
2. Organizing Comments
3. Commenting on Video
4. Sending a Document for an Email-Based Review
5. Sending a Document for Shared Review
6. Checking for & Replying to Comments
7. Using the Review Tracker
8. Merging, Importing & Summarizing Comments

Chapter 11: ADDING ACCESSIBILITY TO PDFS (14 min)
1. Accessibility Setup, Full Check & Report
2. Adjust Language Settings & Tag PDF for Accessibility
3. The Acrobat Read Out Loud Options

Chapter 12: AUTOMATED DOCUMENT PROCESSING (11 min)
1. Indexing
2. Creating a New Batch Sequence

Chapter 13: EXPLORING COLLABORATION OPTIONS (26 min)
1. Using Acrobat.com
2. Using Collaborate Live
3. Using ConnectNow
4. Using Buzzword®

Chapter 14: TIPS & TRICKS (42 min)
1. 3D
2. Preflight
3. Attaching a PDF to an Email
4. The Typewriter Tool
5. Enabling Usage Rights in Adobe Reader®
6. Digital Signatures
7. Redaction
8. Organizer
9. Screen Capture on Mac®
10. Final Comments & Credits